I keep getting harm intrusive thoughts in direct relation to feeling powerless. I don’t want to hurt anyone but I keep getting intrusive thoughts of killing people and I’m scared of what this means for me.
I understand I used to get a lot harm thoughts about hurting my mother in law when she was talking to me I knew it was ocd because I will never ever hurt any one I did erp and it cause me a lot anxiety I felt like I was doing the wrong thing like I was accepting I was a monster but with the time I kept doing this and now when I get this thoughts it don’t cause me distraction or anything now I do struggle with health ocd most of the time something with other type of ocd but I recover quickly from health ocd no quickly it take me so much time
@Amonymos’: Yes constant and recurrent I thought it was gonna be like that for ever erp don’t make it worse it just the symptoms and thoughts get stronger during the therapy but after that all too
@Amonymos’: After you overcome it all good no more suffering
@Amonymos’: Yes it can is part of OCD harm thoughts all normal you are scared because you are no that person if you was one you won’t be scared of it
@Amonymos’: I know you will be okay I went though the exact same you won’t be that person because you are no you just have ocd which it su*ck honestly sadly ocd use anything with care about to attack us with this fears
@Amonymos’: Yes it can make you feel that ocd will do anything for you to really believe that you are a bad person I know is hard but is just ocd I never experienced false memories with harm things but I did with contamination ocd and I understand what it is to overcome this you have to do erp same for the thoughts I overcome came harm by accepting my thoughts no fighting with it no agreeing with it no looking for reassurance or asking for reassurance yes it was very scary yes I have urges and bad thoughts and I thought I was going crazy is the worse but I sit with all the uncertainty which it was so hard because I wanted to know for sure if I was a bad person or no if one day I was gonna loose control or no but to overcome this I choose uncertainty rather than knowing all the stuff I wanted to know and because I choose uncertainty I overcome this theme I do still suffer with health contamination relationship and other theme of ocd but no harm at all
@Amonymos’: Doubling if you have ocd is also part of ocd I doubled too what if no ocd what if something else ? That’s ocd you definitely have ocd mine started at early age too I was 6 mine started with health ocd and then later on In live I started experiencing more themes I used have those thoughts like what if I slept walk left the house and did something ? and the anxiety was so bad but I had to sit the uncertainty maybe I did maybe no I don’t know ocd will never be satisfied
@Amonymos’: Even thought I never slept walk before no one ever said anything about this
@Amonymos’: When you get harms thoughts I know you want to look for some relief because of the anxiety and fear that ocd bring but please just sit with the anxiety fear and feeling sit with the urges of wanting to know and make sure and fix stuff do this all the times some days gonna relapse but is okay just continue to do this and you will overcome this I promise
@Amonymos’: That’s OCD cycle you need to break it ocd will Always find something more thoughts more “evidence “ the more you analyze the thoughts the more they seem real when they are no because you are ruminating about it for example I struggle with health OCD I get thoughts that I will have a heart attack if I google how to avoid a heart attack or confess to someone that I m scared to have a heart attack these are compulsions this will only give me more anxiety more thoughts and it will fuel my ocd if I keep doing that I will no recover the way to recover is accepting this thoughts without doing the compulsions is very important no to do compulsions
@Amonymos’: Don’t look on fb no more no setting alarm no more You will get a lot anxiety by no doing this because you are teaching your brain there’s no real danger I did erp if you ignore it is basically like fighting with it is best to accept the thought even though they give you anxiety I never want to accept my thoughts because I thought it I accept it then it will happen for sure and plus I hate the feeling of the anxiety but I had to go through all the pain of accepting them and the physical symptoms to overcome it
@Amonymos’: you see how ocd make us think a theme is more important than than the other one I used to think harm was so important very important to me and now it mean nothing to me at all but I do tho k health is so important super important ocd use anything we care about or that we think is important harm is no real is just ocd telling you that just like me with health with help of a therapist you can start erp little by little I understand a therapist can help you with stopping the alarm and other compulsions it take time it have to be reduce little by little I completely understand I want to feel safe that time as well I used to get thoughts like what if I will become schizophrenia someone told me you don’t need to know and I was like what but I can’t live with this fear of no knowing and that’s what was keeping me stuck once I accept that I will never have 100 certainly not things I got better that’s no true I did erp my self because I can’t afford therapy and I m good with that theme all you have to do is stop doing compulsions little by little don’t cut them all at once because the anxiety will be too high
@Amonymos’: I have some books that help me getting started I follow the instructions I know you can’t cut them all at once for example if you do 10 compulsions at day try to start doing 9 then 8 and that’s how it goes. Depending on on how much you can tolerate the anxiety maybe medication can make it easier I never been on medication it was really hard ocd therapist are super expensive I can’t afford it I have a lot good books that I read and helped me out a lot and there’s no a lot therapist that understand ocd in my eyes yes health ocd ruin my life every day I don’t go to the doctors I just get a lot health related thoughts and get scared of it and my compulsions are I tried to ruminate “fixing the thoughts but I stop doing this every time I realize what I m doing and when I get bad symptoms I also get scared but I m just accepting them like ok whatever if I 💀 I did that’s it so I don’t get trapped in the cycle I really hope I can overcome this ugh is like impossible I move on from every other theme I had so many in the past I only ended up with health relationship and perfectionism
@Amonymos’: I have fews book but the one that help me the most was overcoming obsessive thoughts by christine purdon I bought it on Amazon this book help with any theme of ocd because is the same therapy for any theme yes with harm it switch I used to have thoughts about my family and friends and stranger sometimes that’s because ocd just keep moving to find other things to obsess about for example if you used to worry about doing something bad to your pet then it will move on to stranger or friends it just keep doing this to keep you stuck you have to do the same respond to every thought yes that’s the best thing to do I don’t know why I m so scared of 💀like it will happen one day to all of us but the fear of it is so scary that I developed health anxiety and can’t overcome it I will try that definitely did you have health anxiety for long time I have it since a kid
@Amonymos’: Yes
@Amonymos’: Health ocd
@Amonymos’: I didn’t know I had ocd until 2014 I went to a therapist and they also had a psychiatrist in the office I talked to the psychiatrist about my symptoms that started when I was younger she said I had ocd on that time I didn’t had harm theme yet just health and worrying about if I don’t do something right something could’ve happened to my family my harm started 2016 I believe back and forth and then came back 2022 that’s when I did erp myself haven’t had it since 2022 I do get some harm thoughts here and there but I don’t get affect by it no anxiety or fear
@Amonymos’: Honestly ocd will trick you to believe anything ocd want and of course you don’t want to do it that’s why you are terrified
I need advice for intrusive thoughts. I used to feel like I could handle them. They weren’t nearly as bad as the things that related to my actual life. But now, I’m suffering. I haven’t had a sexual experience in over a year that didn’t involve constant intrusive thoughts. Most are somehow related to kids and I keep chasing off the thoughts but it’s so bad. I know you’re supposed to ignore them but I don’t know how I can just ignore that and continue what I’m doing. But they’re coming on stronger. I had one earlier I could not get rid of just as things finished so the thought came on strongly just before my orgasm hit and now I feel absolutely disgusting. I hated the thought and I know it’s not me and it was not enjoyable but it still feels like I was getting off to it. I feel sick. I’m so fucking tired of these thoughts. They’re in my every day life too and it’s all the time. I just want it to stop but ignoring it feels so wrong. What should I do?
i’m back in a cycle of having harm related OCD thoughts and feelings and urges and i get these episodes where it’s like i’m disassociating and feel like i’m about to snap and go crazy violent. does anyone else experience this? i need help
I have all kinds of thoughts that aren’t me it feels like someone is talking to me telling me evil things about people or to do evil things 😞😞😞😞 I can’t do this anymore
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